March 9                                         Lev 24 - 27

USING GOD’S EYES

MEMORISE: ‘I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with mine eye.’ (Ps 32: 8)
READ: 1 Samuel 16: 6- 13

The prophet Samuel invited Jesse’s family to the sacrifice he made at Bethlehem to determine which of his children God has chosen to be the next king. When Jesse presented them one by one, even the prophet missed God’s choice, because he depended on his physical eyes during the selection. Then God gave him the secret: ‘But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart’ (1 Sam 16:7).

As believers at one time or another we are confronted by a crucial decision capable of impacting upon our destiny. At such moments, look beyond your eyes, which can only assess things physically. Insist on depending on God’s eyes, which will X-ray the situation and thereafter give you the right leading. Depending on your physical eyes limits you terribly. And most of the time you might miss God. Even as a man of God, if you do not insist on subjecting that situation to God’s pruning eyes, like Samuel, you may misjudge it. 1 Samuel 2: 3 says….’ The LORD is a God is knowledge, an by him actions are weighed.’

God looks beyond your deeds. He probes into your heart to actually find out why you did that particular thing. This way, someone who did a charitable deed will lose his reward because he did it to be seen of men- while the one who took an excessive step out of zeal towards God, may win God’s approval because he did wrong with the right motive.

‘Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised’ (Prov 31:30). Making your choice of marriage partner based on beauty, wealth an other physical yardsticks may cause you to choose wrongly. But allowing God to choose for you will make you the right choice. Resolve from today to begin to use God’s eyes.

ACTION POINT
Ask God to help you to see through his eyes before taking any decision henceforth. Ask him to support missionaries worldwide.